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Adapting War Horse - Cognition, the Spectator, and a Sense of Play (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016):... Adapting War Horse - Cognition, the Spectator, and a Sense of Play (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Toby Malone, Christopher J. Jackman
R1,778 Discovery Miles 17 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyses the success and adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel War Horse to stage, radio, live events, and feature film, in different cultures, on tours, and in translation. In under a decade, War Horse has gone from obscure children's novel to arguably one of the world's most recognisable theatrical brands, thanks to innovative puppet designs from South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company in an acclaimed stage production from the National Theatre of Great Britain. With emphasis on embodied spectatorship, collaborative meaning-making, and imaginative 'play,' this book generates fresh insights into the enduring popularity of the franchise's eponymous protagonist, Joey, offering the most in-depth study of War Horse to date.

Children's Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017): Karen... Children's Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Karen Sands-O'Connor
R3,080 Discovery Miles 30 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines a critical period in British children's publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education acts, Black protest, community publishing and children's literature prizes, the study investigates the motivation behind both independent and mainstream publishing firm decisions to produce books for a specifically Black British audience. Beginning with a consideration of early reading schemes that incorporated Black and Asian characters, the book continues with a history of one of the earliest presses to publish for children, Bogle L'Ouverture. Other chapters look at the influence of community-based and independent presses, the era of multiculturalism and anti-racism, the effect of racially-motivated violence on children's publishing, and the dubious benefit of awards for Black British publishing. The volume will appeal to children's literature scholars, librarians, teachers, education-policy makers and Black British historians.

Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures - Nordic Dialogues (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original... Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures - Nordic Dialogues (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Nina Goga, Lykke Guanio-Uluru, Bjorg Oddrun Hallas, Aslaug Nyrnes
R4,348 Discovery Miles 43 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children's and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics. It investigates the extent to which texts for children and young adults reflect current environmental concerns. The chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: Ethics and Aesthetics, Landscape, Vegetal, Animal, and Human, and together they explore Nordic representations and a Nordic conception, or feeling, of nature. The textual analyses are complemented with the lived experiences of outdoor learning practices in preschools and schools captured through children's own statements. The volume highlights the growing influence of posthumanist theory and the continuing traces of anthropocentric concerns within contemporary children's literature and culture, and a non-dualistic understanding of nature-culture interaction is reflected in the conceptual tool of the volume: The Nature in Culture Matrix.

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ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ
R702 Discovery Miles 7 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Critical Content Analysis of Visual Images in Books for Young People - Reading Images (Paperback): Holly Johnson, Janelle... Critical Content Analysis of Visual Images in Books for Young People - Reading Images (Paperback)
Holly Johnson, Janelle Mathis, Kathy Short
R1,460 Discovery Miles 14 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Extending the discussion of critical content analysis to the visual realm of picturebooks and graphic novels, this book provides a clear research methodology for understanding and analyzing visual imagery. Offering strategies for "reading" illustrations in global and multicultural literature, chapter authors explore and bring together critical theory and social semiotics while demonstrating how visual analysis can be used to uncover and analyze power, ideologies, inequity, and resistance in picturebooks and graphic novels. This volume covers a diverse range of texts and types of books and offers tools and procedures for interpreting visual images to enhance the understandings of researchers, teachers, and students as they engage with the visual culture that fills our world. These methods are significant not only to becoming a critical reader of literature but to also becoming a critical reader of visual images in everyday life.

Religious Language and Asian American Hybridity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016): Julius-Kei Kato Religious Language and Asian American Hybridity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Julius-Kei Kato
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, Julius-Kei Kato lets the theories and experiences of Asian American hybridity converse with and bear upon some aspects of Christian biblical and theological language. Hybridity has become a key feature of today's globalized world and is, of course, a key concept in postcolonial thought. However, despite its crucial importance, hybridity is rarely used as a paradigm through which to analyze and evaluate the influential concepts and teachings that make up religious language. This book fills a lacuna by discussing what the concept of hybridity challenges and resists, what over-simplifications it has the power to complicate, and what forgotten or overlooked strands in religious tradition it endeavors to recover and reemphasize. Shifting seamlessly between biblical, theological, and modern, real-world case studies, Kato shows how hybridity permeates and can illuminate religious phenomena as lived and believed. The ultimate goal of the move toward an embrace of hybridity is a further dissolution of the thick wall separating ideas of "us" and "them." In this book, Kato suggests the possibility of a world in which what one typically considers the "other" is increasingly recognized within oneself.

Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature (Paperback): Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer, Anja Muller Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature (Paperback)
Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer, Anja Muller
R1,470 Discovery Miles 14 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children's literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children's literatures. Chapters by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children's literatures from Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as from Non-European countries such as Australia, Israel, and the United States. Situating the inquiry within larger literary and cultural studies conversations about canonicity, the contributors assess representative authors and works that have encountered changing fates in the course of canon history. Particular emphasis is given to sociological canon theories, which have so far been under-represented in canon research in children's literature. The volume therefore relates historical changes in the canon of children's literature not only to historical changes in concepts of childhood but to more encompassing political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological shifts. This volume's comparative approach takes cognizance of the fact that, if canon formation is an important cultural factor in nation-building processes, a comparative study is essential to assessing transnational processes in canon formation. This book thus renders evident the structural similarities between patterns and strategies of canon formation emerging in different children's literatures.

The Embodied Child - Readings in Children's Literature and Culture (Paperback): Roxanne Harde, Lydia Kokkola The Embodied Child - Readings in Children's Literature and Culture (Paperback)
Roxanne Harde, Lydia Kokkola
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Embodied Child: Readings in Children's Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children's bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology behind the cultural constructions of the child's body and the impact they have on society, and how the child's body becomes a carrier of cultural ideology within the cultural imagination. They also consider the portrayal of children's bodies in terms of the seeming dichotomies between healthy-vs-unhealthy bodies as well as able-bodied-vs-disabled, and examines flesh-and-blood bodies that engage with literary texts and other media. The contributors bring perspectives from anthropology, communication, education, literary criticism, cultural studies, philosophy, physical education, and religious studies. With wide and astute coverage of disparate literary and cultural texts, and lively scholarly discussions in the introductions to the collection and to each section, this book makes a long-needed contribution to discussions of the body and the child.

Victorian Children's Literature - Experiencing Abjection, Empathy, and the Power of Love (Paperback, Softcover reprint of... Victorian Children's Literature - Experiencing Abjection, Empathy, and the Power of Love (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Ruth Y. Jenkins
R1,964 Discovery Miles 19 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book reveals how the period's transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between identity and transformation. At the heart of this study is this question: what is the relationship between Victorian children's literature, its readers, and their psychic development? Ruth Y. Jenkins uses Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection to uncover the presence of cultural anxieties and social tensions in works by Kingsley, MacDonald, Carroll, Stevenson, Burnett, Ballantyne, Nesbit, Tucker, Sewell, and Rossetti.

Culture, Economy and Politics - The Case of New Labour (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): David Hesmondhalgh, Kate Oakley, David Lee,... Culture, Economy and Politics - The Case of New Labour (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
David Hesmondhalgh, Kate Oakley, David Lee, Melissa Nisbett
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on cultural policy in the UK between 1997 and 2010 under the Labour party (or 'New Labour', as it was temporarily rebranded). It is based on interviews with major figures and examines a range of policy areas including the arts, creative industries, copyright, film policy, heritage, urban regeneration and regional policy.

The Pop Music Idol and the Spirit of Charisma - Reality Television Talent Shows in the Digital Economy of Hope (Paperback, 1st... The Pop Music Idol and the Spirit of Charisma - Reality Television Talent Shows in the Digital Economy of Hope (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
T. Cvetkovski
R2,035 Discovery Miles 20 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book makes a case for the synergetic union between reality TV and the music industry. It delves into technological change in popular music, and the role of music reality TV and social media in the pop production process. It challenges the current scholarship which does not adequately distinguish the economic significance of these developments.

Media, Margins and Popular Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): Heather Savigny, Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, Jenny Alexander Media, Margins and Popular Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Heather Savigny, Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, Jenny Alexander
R2,131 Discovery Miles 21 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection brings together leading research on contemporary and popular culture, focussing on marginalised voices and representations; socially marginalised, marginalised in media and media scholarship. It spans five continents, with contributions on topics like gender, sexuality, nation, disability, disciplinary boundaries, youth and age.

Media, Margins and Civic Agency (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): Heather Savigny, Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, Jenny Alexander Media, Margins and Civic Agency (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Heather Savigny, Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, Jenny Alexander
R2,026 Discovery Miles 20 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection brings together new research on contemporary media, politics and power. It explores ways and means through which media can and do empower or dis-empower citizens at the margins that is, how they act as vehicles of, or obstacles to, civic agency and social change.

Adulthood and Other Fictions - American Literature and the Unmaking of Age (Hardcover): Sari Edelstein Adulthood and Other Fictions - American Literature and the Unmaking of Age (Hardcover)
Sari Edelstein
R2,353 Discovery Miles 23 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While the field of childhood studies has blossomed in recent years, few scholars have taken up the question of age more broadly as a lens for reading American literature. Adulthood and Other Fictions shows how a diverse array of nineteenth-century writers, thinkers, and artists responded to the rise of chronological age in social and political life. Over the course of the century, age was added to the census; schools were organized around age groups; birthday cards were mass-produced; geriatrics became a medical specialty. Adulthood and Other Fictions reads American literature as a rich, critical account of this modern culture of age, and it examines how our most well-known writers registered-and often resisted-age expectations, particularly as they applied to women and people of color. More than simply adding age to the list of identity categories that have become de rigueur sites of scholarly attention, Adulthood and Other Fictions argues that these other measures of social location (race, gender, sexuality, class) are largely legible through the seemingly more natural and essential identity defined by age. That is, longstanding cultural ideals about maturity and development anchor ideologies of heterosexuality, race, nationalism, and capitalism, and in this sense, age rhetoric serves as one of our most pervasive disciplinary discourses. Writers including Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and Henry James anticipated the ageism of our moment, but they also recognized how age norms both structure and limit the lives of individuals at all points on the age continuum. Ultimately, the volume argues for an intersectional understanding of age that challenges the celebration of independence and autonomy imbricated in US fantasies of adulthood and in American identity itself.

Queer Oz - L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender (Paperback): Tison Pugh Queer Oz - L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender (Paperback)
Tison Pugh
R949 R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Save R139 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Regardless of his own sexual orientation, L. Frank Baum's fictions revel in queer, trans, and other transgressive themes. Baum's life in the late 1800s and early 1900s coincided with the rise of sexology in the Western world, as a cascade of studies heightened awareness of the complexity of human sexuality. His years of productivity also coincided with the rise of children's literature as a unique field of artistic creation. Best known for his Oz series, Baum produced a staggering number of children's and juvenile book series under male and female pseudonyms, including the Boy Fortune Hunters series, the Aunt Jane's Nieces series, and the Mary Louise series, along with many miscellaneous tales for young readers. Baum envisioned his fantasy works as progressive fictions, aspiring to create in the Oz series "a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out." In line with these progressive aspirations, his works are often sexually progressive as well, with surprisingly queer and trans touches that reject the standard fairy-tale narrative path toward love and marriage. From Ozma of Oz's backstory as a boy named Tip to the genderless character Chick the Cherub, from the homosocial adventures of his Boy Fortune Hunters to the determined rejection of romance for Aunt Jane's Nieces, Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender shows how Baum exploited the freedoms of children's literature, in its carnivalesque celebration of a world turned upside-down, to reimagine the meanings of gender and sexuality in early twentieth-century America and to re-envision them for the future.

Headlines from the Holy Land - Reporting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): James Rodgers Headlines from the Holy Land - Reporting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
James Rodgers
R1,515 Discovery Miles 15 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tied by history, politics, and faith to all corners of the globe, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fascinates and infuriates people across the world. Based on new archive research and original interviews, Headlines from the Holy Land explains why this fiercely contested region exerts such a pull over leading correspondents and diplomats.

The New Time and Space (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): John Potts The New Time and Space (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
John Potts
R1,931 Discovery Miles 19 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the networked age, we are living with changed parameters of time and space. Mobile networked communication fosters a form of virtual time and space, which is super-imposed onto territorial space. Time is increasingly composed of interruptions and distractions, as smartphone users are overwhelmed by messages.

Film Distribution in the Digital Age - Pirates and Professionals (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): Virginia Crisp Film Distribution in the Digital Age - Pirates and Professionals (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Virginia Crisp
R3,094 Discovery Miles 30 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Film Distribution in the Digital Age critically examines the evolution of the landscape of film distribution in recent years. In doing so, it argues that the interlocking ecosystem(s) of media dissemination must be considered holistically and culturally if we are to truly understand the transnational flows of cultural texts.

Ancient Fairy and Folk Tales - An Anthology (Hardcover): Graham Anderson Ancient Fairy and Folk Tales - An Anthology (Hardcover)
Graham Anderson
R4,470 Discovery Miles 44 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, appearing much earlier than the 17th century where awareness of most fairy tales tends to begin. It presents versions of Cinderella, The Emperor's New Clothes, Snow White, The Frog Prince and a host of others where the similarities to familiar 'modern' versions far outweigh the differences. Here we find Cinderella as a courtesan, Snow White coming to a tragic end or an innocent heroine murdering her sisters. We find an emperor's new clothes where the flatterers compare him to Alexander the Great, or a pair of adulterers caught in a magic trap. Tantalising fragments suggest that there is more to be discovered: we can point to a Sleeping Beauty where the girl takes on the green colouring of the surrounding wood, or we encounter a Rumpelstiltskin connected to a mystery cult. The overall picture suggests a much richer texture of popular tale as a fascinating new legacy of antiquity. This volume breaks down the traditional barriers between Classical Mythology and the fairy tale, and will be an invaluable resource for anyone working on the history of fairy tales and folklore.

Key Thinkers in Critical Communication Scholarship - From the Pioneers to the Next Generation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): John... Key Thinkers in Critical Communication Scholarship - From the Pioneers to the Next Generation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
John A. Lent, Michelle Amazeen
R2,121 Discovery Miles 21 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The personal anecdotes and candid reflections on the lives and work of these important critical scholars, and their predictions on the future of the field, make this book a valuable resource for scholars and students of communication, media studies, political economy, political science, and those interested in critical theoretical approaches.

Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater (Hardcover): Donelle Ruwe, James Leve Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater (Hardcover)
Donelle Ruwe, James Leve
R4,477 Discovery Miles 44 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bringing together scholars from musicology, literature, childhood studies, and theater, this volume examines the ways in which children's musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors take up a wide range of musicals, including works inspired by the books of children's authors such as Roald Dahl, P.L. Travers, and Francis Hodgson Burnett; created by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lionel Bart, and other leading lights of musical theater; or conceived for a cast made up entirely of children. The collection examines musicals that propagate or complicate normative attitudes regarding what childhood is or should be. It also considers the child performer in movie musicals as well as in professional and amateur stage musicals. This far-ranging collection highlights the special place that musical theater occupies in the imaginations and lives of children as well as adults. The collection comes at a time of increased importance of musical theater in the lives of children and young adults.

A Critical Theory of Creativity - Utopia, Aesthetics, Atheism and Design (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): R. Howells A Critical Theory of Creativity - Utopia, Aesthetics, Atheism and Design (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
R. Howells
R1,487 Discovery Miles 14 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A Critical Theory of Creativity argues that a Utopian drive is aesthetically encoded within the language of form. But coupled with this opportunity comes a very human obligation which cannot be delegated to God, to nature or to market forces. As Ernst Bloch declared: 'Life has been put into our hands.'

The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio - Exploring Their Parallel Worlds (Paperback): Laura Tosi, Peter Hunt The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio - Exploring Their Parallel Worlds (Paperback)
Laura Tosi, Peter Hunt; Edited by Donald E. Palumbo
R1,519 R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Save R606 (40%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Children's literature: what are the greatest, most widely read, most influential, most translated and most adapted classics? Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi's Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) must be prime candidates, and through them this book explores what it means to be transnational fantasy icons - while at the same time being deeply rooted in national cultures. How are these books connected to the world's psyche through folktales and fairy tales, while being quintessentially British and Italian, and how have Alice and Pinocchio become staples of postmodernism? There is an abundance of critical works on the Alice books and Pinocchio as separate entities but there have been, until today, no scholarly books that consider both together: broadly contemporaneous with each other, and although they were published with radically different political, social and cultural backgrounds, there are surprising similarities between the Alice books and Pinocchio, and between their authors' perspectives. This timely book fills this gap: The Parallel Worlds of Alice and Pinocchio] is a parallel reading of texts that are one-offs in their own countries, texts that are very far from - and in many ways in direct opposition to - the didactic turn in children's books. It ranges across the whole spectrum of comparative literary studies, exploring such diverse areas as imagology, cultural history, literary criticism and biography, and extends the discussion into British and Italian school and adventure stories.

The Radio Boys and Girls - Radio, Telegraph, Telephone and Wireless Adventures for Juvenile Readers, 1890-1945 (Paperback):... The Radio Boys and Girls - Radio, Telegraph, Telephone and Wireless Adventures for Juvenile Readers, 1890-1945 (Paperback)
Mike Adams
R1,285 R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Save R363 (28%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Serial fiction about wireless and radio was the most popular young adult literature at the turn of the 20th century and a form of early social media. Before television and the Internet, book about plucky youths braving danger and adventure with the help of wireless communication brought young people together. They gathered in basements to build crystal sets and listen to early broadcasts. They built transmitters and talked to each other across neighborhoods, cities and states. By 1920, there was music on the airwaves and boys and girls tuned in on homemade radios, inspired by their favorite stories. This book covers more than 50 volumes of wireless and radio themed fiction, offering a unique perspective on the world presented to young readers of the day. The values, attitudes, culture and technology of a century ago are discussed, along with issues still debated today, including immigration, gun violence, race, bullying and economic inequality.

Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994-2014 - The Rise and Spread of Hacktivism and Cyberconflict (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015):... Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994-2014 - The Rise and Spread of Hacktivism and Cyberconflict (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Athina Karatzogianni
R1,902 Discovery Miles 19 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book introduces four waves of upsurge in digital activism and cyberconflict. The rise of digital activism started in 1994, was transformed by the events of 9/11, culminated in 2011 with the Arab Spring uprisings, and entered a transformative phase of control and mainstreaming since 2013 with the Snowden affair.

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